Fatal attraction: Satellites to determine sea lions deaths
... researcher Markus Horning has received a grant to implant radio transmitters on sea lions to determine how t...e to find some answers." Horning and Mellish will implant the radio transmitters inside some stellers, then set them free. Each transmitter will store data an...Israeli fertility experts call for international chromosome registry
...techniques suffers repeated failures of embryos to implant in her uterus it may be because she has a chromosomal abnormality, according to new findings by Israeli fertility experts. A team from the Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre in Tel Aviv carried out genetic screening on 65 couples who had experienced repeat...Blood vessels found to signal chain of destruction in bone diseases
...porosis, tumor-associated bone loss, or artificial implant loosening. Patricia Collin-Osdoby, Ph.D., research associate professor of biology inArts & Sciences at Washington University, and Philip Osdoby, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, and Linda Rothe, Washington University research asso...'Why isn't the neural tube defects rate lower?,' asks March of Dimes
...d pressure. Estrogen replacement in the form of an implant under the skin (the effect of which is similar to transdermal estrogen in humans) reverses this problem," Vongpatanasin said. The 12 study participants randomly received transdermal estrogen replacement therapy for eight weeks, then switched t...Scientists at Penn track epileptic seizures
..., he believes scientists may eventually be able to implant devices in the brain that will abort seizures by reacting to, and diffusing, the cycle of increasing abnormal brain activity....UK scientists make major advance with novel chromosome testing technique
...does not automatically mean an embryo will fail to implant or that there will be a miscarriage: however, the ...sts to decide which embryos are the most likely to implant and develop normally. By preferentially transferring these embryos considerably higher success rates...Study finds cochlear implants cost-effective in children
...quality-of-life improvements in pediatric cochlear implant patients using U.S. cost data, the authors say. A...ude all the associated costs and consequences, the implant actually saves society money in the long term," he says. The cost-benefit comes in the form of fewer...Artificial chromosomes could cure diseases
... her colleagues at Chromos have developed a way to implant genes into the satellite DNA. They can implant multiple copies of the same gene, and implant genes far larger than is possible in any other "gene s...Screening embryos for 'problem' chromosomes
... to 70-fold as women get older. Many embryos don't implant and of those that do the result can be an early miscarriage or handicaps such as Down's Syndrome. Around 9% of couples where the woman suffers repeated miscarriages involve translocations and any babies born are severely handicapped. Women at high r...MetaPhore reports general anti-inflammatory surface treatment for biomedical materials
...ggest that one in ten Americans may have a medical implant of some kind. Researchers at MetaPhore Pharmaceuti... rat model. Examination of tissue surrounding the implant revealed a dose dependent anti-inflammatory effect, including: A dramatic reduction in both acute......rts how lasers are making it easier for embryos to implant in the lining of a woman's womb and turning pre-implantation genetic diagnosis into a quicker, more effective procedure. Improving pregnancy rates and implantation of embryos in the uterus are the biggest challenges in IVF, according to Dr Katalin Ka...Common anti-inflammatory drug rescues low-growth fetuses in mouse study
...egnancy, COX products help the fetus or fetuses to implant properly in the uterine wall. In late pregnancy, they mediate separation of the fetal and maternal blood supplies to set the stage for birth. Any future therapeutic strategy involving COX inhibitors to treat IUGR, therefore, would need to account for......rriers and opportunities to developing systems for implant retrieval analysis and data banking. The TAC will...stematic effort developed in the United States for implant retrieval analysis or data banking. The objective of the conference is to assess the opportunities ...Mouse embryo hints at how mammalian body forms
...oderm, which emerges in the embryo as it begins to implant in the uterine wall. They believe that the cell plays a role in the organization of the embryo at the next stage of development, gastrulation -- a process that gives rise to the three primary tissues from which all organs and cells of the body emerg...NIH conference to assess state of medical implants
...rriers and opportunities to developing systems for implant retrieval analysis and data banking. The TAC will...stematic effort developed in the United States for implant retrieval analysis or data banking. The objective of the conference is to assess the opportunities ...... in this area. Bio-Compatible Materials Medical implant devices are increasingly used as the population ag...es that are curved, which is generally the casefor implant devices. New self-assembled monolayer films appear to offer significant potentialin this area. Colla...Gene mutation tied to deafness found in African-Americans and Caucasians
... loss in children. It is alsoa center for cochlear implant surgery. These devices help restore auditoryinput. But some youngsters do not benefit from them as much as others. So far noone has ever systematically looked at whether or not the underlying cause ofdeafness influences the efficacy of cochlear impla...Nature publishes secret of abalone shell strength
..., camping gear, and biomedical applicationssuch as implant materials and prosthetics. Authors of the Nature article, 'Molecular Mechanistic Origin of theToughness of Natural Adhesives, Fibers, and Composites,' are Bettye L. Smith,research associate, Department of Physics, UCSB; Tilman E. Schaffer, a...Procedure, new apparatus may allow relief from incontinence
...ments. In a two-hourprocedure, colorectal surgeons implant the multipart, fluid-filled prosthesisinside the body. A balloon with tubing at one end is inserted in the space nextto the bladder; the tubing leads to a cuff, which surrounds the anal canal. If it receives FDA approval, the prosthesis will become m...Embryos that implant in uterus 'late' prove more likely to die in first weeks of pregnancy
...ciencessaid today that fertilized human eggs that implant late are less likely tosurvive. The road t...e found that the lost fetusestend to be those that implant late. (NEJM, June 10.) The implantation of thefertilized egg in the wall of the uterus is necessary...